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SMOKE CONSUMER. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 1a, 191;.

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TTED STATES PATENT QFFICEQ CHARLES SNOW, 0F- NEWTOWN, CALIFORNIA.

SMOKE-CONSUMER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES Snow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newtown, in the county of Eldorado and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smoke- Consumers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for consuming smoke, dust, etc., and the object in view is to construct a device that will effectually isolate the suspended particles of carbon in smoke or separate dust from atmospheric air, as the case may be, when the same is conducted by various agencies through the apparatus.

The improved feature in my device will be hereinafter more particularly referred to in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 illustrates in sec tional elevation my device in operative p0--, sition, and Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the means employed for accelerating or retarding the downpour of water from one division of the tank to another.

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numerals 1 and 2 indicate twin cylindrical hollow tanks of any desirable size or material and stationed at a suitable height one above the other. Partition 3 is mounted horizontally within each of the said tanks 1 and 2 and separates them into upper and lower compartment-s respectively 4 and 5. The tanks are further subdivided into a number of compartments by a series of partitions 6 extending perpendicularly to the plane of partition 3 and alternately supported to the bottom of said tanks 1 and 2 and the partitions 3. As the height of the partition 6 is somewhat less than the dis tance between partition 3 and the bottom of the tanks 1 and 2 it will be observed thatthe compartments resulting from the introduction of the said partition 6 are not entirely isolated from one another but are in communication by narrow passageways indicated by the curved arrows in Fig. 1. An inlet port 7 is provided near the top of the tanks and two outlet ports 8 and 9 are arranged near the bottom thereof, and the lower portion of the compartment 5 in tank 1 is thrown into communication with the upper part of compartment 5 in tank 2,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. September 13, 1911.

Patented Jan. 21, 1913.

Serial No. 649,108.

through the agency of a lead pipe 10. A convey pipe 11 communicating with part 5 of tank 1 empties into compartment l of tank 2. The above referred to partitions 8 are made to conform to the shape of the tanks and are held in position by any suitable means and comprise two diaphragms 3 and 3 having perforations 3 therein and riveted by a round bolt 8 through their common center in such a manner that the top diaphragm 3 may be circumferentially shifted or oscillated at will, the bolt 3 acting as a journal on which it may be re volved. A knot 3 is provided to manually effect the aforesaid shifting at expedient intervals. The diaphragms 3 remain in stationary position and are fixedly mounted Within the tanks. The twin diaphragms 3 and 3 are so arranged that the perforations 3 therein can be adjusted to register as illustrated in tank 1 or thrown out of register as shown in tank 2 by merely shifting the diaphragm 3' in either direction for the obvious purpose of permitting more or less water to drip fromcompartments 4 to compartments 5. Water is first introduced into compartment 4 of tank 1 and the diaphragms 8 are regulated to allow the proper amount of water to seep therethrough and drip into compartment 5 after the nature of a fine mist or rain. The water thus accumulated rises in the bottom of tank 1 until it reaches the level of port 9 and thence it is conveyed to compartment at of tank 2 through convey pipe 11 and continues to pass through partition 3 of tank 2 as described above, and is finally expelled through port- 9.

The operation of my improved smoke consumer is substantially as follows: The smoke or dust laden air, as the case may be, is now vconveyed by suitable means to the compartment 5 of tank 1 through port 7 and thence it is conducted through the va- 'rious subdivisions of the chamber 5, occasioned by the partition 6, following the course of the arrows'until it enters the convey pipe 10 to be in turn discharged into compartment 5' of tank 2, whence it continues to pass through the various compartments in tank 2 to be finally expelled through port 8 of tank 2 into space, having in its progress through the apparatus been completely filtered of the dust particles or carbon, etc., by the action of the dripping water seeping through the perforations 6 in the partition 3 as above described. While I have only shown two tanks in series it will be evident that any number can be employed in series if so desired.

Having described my invention that which I claim to be new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In combination, a plurality of tanks arranged side by side and successively one above the other, each tank having a horizontal partition provided with perforations dividing the tank into upper and lower compartments, a plurality of vertical partitions projecting upwardly from the bottom of each tank, a plurality of partitions projecting downwardly from the horizontal partition of each tank and alternating with each 7 of the first vertical partitions thereby subdividing the lower compartment, the vertical partitions terminating at a short distance from the wall toward which they project thereby forming a zigzag passage through which the smoke or dust-laden air passes, the vertical partitions that project from the bottom of each tank having p'er- 'forations adjacent the bottom, the uppermost tank having a pipe to convey the smoke or dust-laden air into the zigzag passage, a pipe connecting the zigzag passages of the tanks whereby the smoke or dust-laden air may be conveyed from one zigzag passage to the other, a perforated annular valve plate pivotally secured to each horizontal partition of each tank and provided with means for partially rotating the same to adjust its perforations with relation to the perforations of the horizontal partition whereby water may be allowed to seep therethrough from the upper compartment into the lower compartment in a fine mist or rain, and a pipe leading from each tank for conveying the water from the bottom of the lower compartment to the upper compartment of the adjacent tank below and at the side of the first tank, the last mentioned pipe being connected to its tank below the connection of the pipe that connects the zigzag passages, as specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES SNOW. WVitnesses:

LOUIS A. REED, HERMAN SNOW.

' Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

